Ditching, grading, and levee-builder machine



W. A. STEELE DITCHINGI, GRADING, AND LEVEE BUILDER MACHINE Feb. 12 1924.

Filed Fe 14, 1921 2 Sheets-Sheet l Feb. 12 1924.- 1,483,752

w. A. STEELE DITCHING, GRADING, AND LEVEE BUILDER MACHINE Filed Feb- 14. 1921 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Feb. 12, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM A. s'rEE E, or OWENSBORO, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR T OWENSBQRO nnroHER & GRADER COMPANY, or OWENSBORO, KENTUCKY, A CORPORATION or KENTUCKY.

i v DITGHING, GRADING, AND LEVEE-BUILDEE MACHINE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. STEELE,

a resident of Owensboro, inthe county of Daviess and State of Kentucky, a citizen of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ditching,

Grading, and Levee-Builder Machines, of

which the following is a specification.

My inventionrelates to an improvement in ditching, grading and levee builder machines.

In machines of this character heretofore in use it has been necessary when the dirt was thrown out of the ditch, to move it again by taking the machine out of the ditch and driving along side the pile of dirt in order to throw it further across the road.

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide for moving the dirt to the center of the road with one passage of the machine through the ditch and this is accomplished by the use of an extension removably fastened to the rear end of the mold-board or cutting blade of the machine.

Another feature of the present invention is a one-piece foot-board made of wide angle iron and forming a bracing throughout the major portion of the length of the land side of the machine.

Still another feature of the present invention is an adjustment on the front end of the land side and the blade for the purpose of-raising and lowering the blade in order to adjust it to cut more or less dirt in ditching or road grading.

Still another improvement resides in my double end swivel .clevis, adapted to be used in connection with the goose-neck pulling beam which avoids the necessity of removing the goose-neck from the hitch bar when the machine is reversed as the swivel clevis admits of the goose-neck being turned entirely around thereby saving time in reversing the machine.

In the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 is a viewin perspective looking from the front of the machine.

Figure 2 is a view in perspective looking from the rear.

Figure 3 is a cross section.

Application filed February 14, 1921. Serial No. 444,788

Figurefi is a view of the extension and base removed. i

Figure 5 1s a new showing the inside of the -land side and mold-board or cutting blade Figures 6 and 7 are details.

Fig. 8 is a detail view of the pivot connection between the land side. and moldboard; I 1

Fig. 9 is a similar View showing the manner of obtaining a vertical adjustment of the forward end of the mold-board relative to the land side. i i

A, represents the land side of the machine. This is provided with an angle iron footboard 1, made in a single piece which is quite an advantage in setting up the machine. It is of suitable width and it is sufficiently long to extend throughout the major portion of the length of the land side to which it is bolted thereby bracing it and making it rigid. This foot-board 1, is provided with holes 2, to receive the seat 3.

B, represents a mold-board or cutting blade. The mold-board and land side are provided with brackets 8 and 4:, at their forward ends riveted thereon and through which a bolt 5, extends for pivotally con necting the land side and mold-board or cutting blade together. As shown in Figs; 8 and 9, a collar 5 is adapted to be placed upon the bolt 5 either between the upper projecting ends of the brackets 3 and 4 for raising the forward end of the mold-board relative to the land side, or between the lower projecting ends of the brackets 3 and i a for lowering the forward end of the moldboard relative to the land side,

An extension 6, may be i'nado of wood or other material and is of sufficient length to carry the dirt plowed out'of the ditch to a point at or approximately at the center of v preferably secured to the inner side of the extension 6, and a brace 10, provided with a hook 11, is detachably held in one of the holes 12, in the angle iron brace 9, and a similar hook 13, on the other end of the brace 10, is detachably secured in one of the holes 12, in the foot-board 1, on the land side.

The usual double bl'flC6 15, OXt611ClS from some point near-the rear ofthe mold'board or cutting blade to the foot-board as shown in Figures and 2.

A goos e-neek l6;,arches around the. upper edge'ofthemold-board or cutting blade ex tending vertically in the line'of draft and its rear end is bent into a horizontal posi tion at approximately right-angles to the adjacentvertical portion and is detachably secured to a jaw 17,011 therear of the moldboard or cutting blade preferably by means of one end of the detachable end rail'18;

The forward end of thegooseneck' is provided with a double end swivel clevis 195 the front end of which is attached: tothe hitch bar 20. a

In this way I have provided'a complete and greatly improved machine of the char.

acter described and one in' which thefivarious parts may be easily appliedor'detached as occasion may require; the various parts all being removable and detachable and the' entire machine being capable of being reversed or turned over in order to throw the dirt the other way with the least possible trouble and loss of time.

I claim 1. A machine of the character described including a land side, a mold-board or cutting-blade, brackets secured to the forward ends of said parts, a bolt pivotally c0nnecting these brackets, one bracket of greater length than the other, and means removable from the bolt and insertible between adjacent ends of the brackets for maintaining an adjusted "position between the forward end of the land side and mold-board.

2. A machine of the character described; including a land side, a mold-board or cuttingblade, bracketssecured to the forward" ends of said members, a bolt pivotally connecting these brackets, and a: collar adapted to be placed upon the bolt between the pro jfectin'g ends of the brackets for raising or loweringthe blade to cause it to cut more or less dirt in ditching or roadgrading.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiizi my signature.

WILLIAM A. STEELE. 

